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CI/CD pipeline optimization with parallel builds and deployment stages

CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Faster Builds, Safer Deployments

Practical techniques for cutting build times by 50-80%, implementing safe deployment strategies with canary releases and feature flags, and building a GitOps workflow that gives your team confidence to deploy multiple times per day.

Osman Kuzucu2026-02-01

Serverless architecture cloud functions visualization

Cloud·8 min read

Serverless Architecture: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn't

A clear-eyed assessment of serverless computing — from Lambda and Cloud Functions to cost analysis, cold start mitigation, and the architectural patterns where serverless truly excels versus where traditional infrastructure remains the better choice.

Osman Kuzucu2026-01-25

Database scaling and sharding architecture visualization

Engineering·10 min read

Database Scaling Strategies: Sharding, Replication, and Beyond

A practical guide to scaling relational and NoSQL databases — from vertical scaling and read replicas to horizontal sharding patterns, connection pooling, and the new generation of NewSQL databases like CockroachDB and Vitess.

Osman Kuzucu2026-01-15

Computer vision quality control in manufacturing

AI / ML·8 min read

Computer Vision in Manufacturing: Automating Quality Control

How manufacturers are deploying deep learning-based visual inspection systems to detect defects in real time, reduce waste, and achieve inspection accuracy that surpasses human operators.

Osman Kuzucu2026-01-05

Enterprise blockchain use cases visualization

Blockchain·10 min read

Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency: Real Enterprise Use Cases in 2025

From supply chain transparency to digital identity and automated compliance, blockchain is quietly transforming enterprise operations. A practical look at what works today.

Osman Kuzucu2025-12-20

Cross-chain interoperability bridge visualization

Blockchain·10 min read

Cross-Chain Interoperability: Bridging the Blockchain Divide

Bridge architectures, security risks, and the protocols enabling communication between isolated blockchains. From lock-and-mint to atomic swaps, IBC protocol to LayerZero — a comprehensive technical overview.

Osman Kuzucu2025-11-28

Zero trust cloud security architecture visualization

Cloud·8 min read

Zero Trust Security Architecture in Cloud-Native Environments

Identity-based access, microsegmentation, service mesh mTLS, and policy engines like OPA. A practical guide to implementing zero trust principles in Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.

Osman Kuzucu2025-11-10

Event-driven architecture patterns visualization

Engineering·10 min read

Event-Driven Architecture: Patterns, Benefits, and Common Pitfalls

Event sourcing, CQRS, message brokers, and the operational realities of building reliable distributed systems. We cover Kafka, RabbitMQ, eventual consistency, dead letter queues, and idempotent consumers.

Osman Kuzucu2025-10-22

AI / ML·12 min read

LLM Fine-Tuning for Domain-Specific Applications

When should you fine-tune an LLM versus using RAG or prompt engineering? We cover LoRA, QLoRA, dataset preparation, evaluation strategies, and deployment considerations for production AI systems.

Osman Kuzucu2025-09-30

Tokenization of real-world assets visualization

Blockchain·10 min read

Tokenization of Real-World Assets: A Technical Deep Dive

Real estate, bonds, and commodities are moving on-chain. We explore the legal wrappers, smart contract standards like ERC-3643, custody models, oracle feeds, and secondary market infrastructure that make RWA tokenization viable.

Osman Kuzucu2025-09-08

Cloud·10 min read

Multi-Cloud Strategy: Benefits, Pitfalls, and When It Actually Makes Sense

Multi-cloud sounds like the ultimate hedge against vendor lock-in, but the operational complexity it introduces can outweigh the benefits. We break down data gravity, abstraction layers, cost optimization traps, and the compliance-driven scenarios where multi-cloud genuinely earns its keep.

Osman Kuzucu2025-08-14

Technical debt measurement and management visualization

Engineering·8 min read

Technical Debt: How to Measure, Prioritize, and Pay It Down

Every codebase accumulates technical debt. The difference between teams that manage it effectively and those drowning in it comes down to measurement, prioritization, and disciplined allocation of engineering time toward remediation.

Osman Kuzucu2025-07-20

Edge AI and IoT device machine learning visualization

AI / ML·10 min read

Edge AI: Running Machine Learning Models on IoT Devices

Moving inference from the cloud to the edge unlocks real-time processing, reduces latency, and cuts bandwidth costs. Explore model compression, quantization, and runtime choices for deploying ML on resource-constrained devices.

Osman Kuzucu2025-06-28

API design patterns for scalable systems visualization

Engineering·8 min read

API Design Principles for Scalable Systems

Great APIs are the backbone of scalable architectures. Explore REST vs gRPC trade-offs, versioning strategies, pagination patterns, rate limiting, idempotency, and error handling that stand the test of production traffic.

Osman Kuzucu2025-06-05

Infrastructure as code with Terraform visualization

Cloud·10 min read

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Best Practices for Growing Teams

Scaling infrastructure with Terraform requires more than just writing HCL files. Learn how to structure modules, manage state safely, and integrate IaC into your CI/CD pipeline for reliable, repeatable deployments.

Osman Kuzucu2025-05-12

Smart contract security vulnerabilities and audit visualization

Blockchain·10 min read

Smart Contract Security: Common Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent Them

An engineering deep dive into the most dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities — reentrancy, integer overflow, access control flaws, and oracle manipulation — with concrete prevention patterns and testing frameworks.

Osman Kuzucu2025-04-18

RAG pipeline architecture diagram visualization

AI / ML·12 min read

Building RAG Pipelines: A Practical Engineering Guide

A deep dive into retrieval-augmented generation engineering — from chunking strategies and embedding model selection to vector store architecture, re-ranking techniques, and evaluation metrics that actually measure quality.

Osman Kuzucu2025-03-28

Microservices versus monolith architecture comparison visualization

Engineering·10 min read

Microservices vs Monolith: A Practical Decision Framework

The microservices vs monolith debate is not about which is better — it is about which is right for your team, your domain, and your stage of growth. A structured framework for making the decision that actually matters.

Osman Kuzucu2025-03-05

Kubernetes production deployment architecture visualization

Cloud·12 min read

Kubernetes at Scale: Lessons from Production Deployments

Hard-won patterns from running Kubernetes clusters in production — covering resource limits, pod disruption budgets, HPA tuning, service mesh decisions, and the observability stack that keeps it all visible.

Osman Kuzucu2025-02-10

Enterprise AI readiness assessment framework visualization

AI / ML·8 min read

How to Evaluate AI Readiness for Your Enterprise

A practical framework for assessing whether your organization is truly ready to adopt AI — covering data maturity, infrastructure, talent, and governance dimensions that determine success or failure.

Osman Kuzucu2025-01-15

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